The farked up part of this is there's only about a hundred of these left in the wild. Humans have farked things up so badly that this is all there are. The death of only one of them reduces the population by ~1%... if human populations were reduced by that much at the same time we'd have to kill off 72,155,273 (seventy two million, one hundred fifty five thousand, two hundred seventy three) people, all at once.

rewind2846:The farked up part of this is there's only about a hundred of these left in the wild. Humans have farked things up so badly that this is all there are. The death of only one of them reduces the population by ~1%... if human populations were reduced by that much at the same time we'd have to kill off 72,155,273 (seventy two million, one hundred fifty five thousand, two hundred seventy three) people, all at once.

We were down to about 50 before we started releasing mountain lions from eastern Texas in Florida for genetic diversity. Had an immediate positive impact on their breeding and were now around 160.

With or without this cub the breeding population is not sustainable without relocation.

Glad they saved him and glad he will be protected. Maybe he can become part of a captive breeding program. I wouldn't care if all panthers were protected, at least the species would survive. We should have taken in a lot of species sooner, like passenger pigeons and the Carolina parakeet. At least we saved the bison.